Rhodobacter capsulatus

Species in genus Rhodobacter. (from NCBI Taxonomy lineage)

Warning: This taxon splits 1→many across databases. Read the panels carefully.

Names over time

Cross-database view

NCBI

NCBI Taxonomy taxdump · 2026-10-23

Rhodobacter capsulatus

taxid: 1061

Bacteria > Pseudomonadota > Alphaproteobacteria > Rhodobacterales > Rhodobacter > Rhodobacter capsulatus

GTDB

Release

Rhodobacter capsulatus_B
Rhodobacter capsulatus
+3 more — see all names below

id: s__Rhodobacter capsulatus_B / s__Rhodobacter capsulatus · GTDB R232

Database's species id. At its weakest, linked by GTDB's own NCBI species id rather than the genome's raw one.

d__Bacteria;p__Pseudomonadota;c__Alphaproteobacteria;o__Rhodobacterales;f__Rhodobacteraceae;g__Rhodobacter;s__Rhodobacter capsulatus_B

GTDB R232 places this taxon's 25 genomes in 2 species.

SILVA

Release

Rhodobacter capsulatus

id: KJ776415 · SILVA 138.2

Walked up to species. At its weakest, linked by walking up 1 level from a strain or subspecies record to the species.

Bacteria;Pseudomonadota;Alphaproteobacteria;Rhodobacterales;Paracoccaceae;Paenirhodobacter;

Greengenes2

Release

Rhodobacter_B_493196 capsulatus_B

id: Rhodobacter_B_493196 capsulatus_B · Greengenes2 2024.09

Genome accession. Linked via GTDB R220 genome accessions — the same physical genomes, not a name match.

d__Bacteria; p__Pseudomonadota; c__Alphaproteobacteria; o__Rhodobacterales; f__Rhodobacteraceae; g__Rhodobacter_B_493196; s__Rhodobacter_B_493196 capsulatus_B

Only 3 genomes — below the threshold for detecting a split, so “current” here means unverified, not confirmed.

Renamed: Greengenes2 gives this taxon a different name in 2022.10, 2024.09.

eHOMD

Release 4.2

Rhodobacter capsulatus

id: HMT-857 · eHOMD 4.2

Exact taxid. Linked by NCBI taxid — eHOMD records the same id NCBI does.

Bacteria;Pseudomonadota;Alphaproteobacteria;Rhodobacterales;Paracoccaceae;Rhodobacter

Only 1 genome — below the threshold for detecting a split, so “current” here means unverified, not confirmed.

Each panel shows one release. Switch a release to see how that database's answer changes — the taxon is held fixed by NCBI taxid, so every panel describes the same organism. Each panel also says how it was linked; how the databases are joined explains the routes.

Lineage by rank

Rank	NCBI	GTDB R232	SILVA 138.2	Greengenes2 2024.09	eHOMD 4.2
domain	Bacteria	Bacteria	Bacteria	Bacteria	Bacteria
phylum	Pseudomonadota	Pseudomonadota	Pseudomonadota	Pseudomonadota	Pseudomonadota
class	Alphaproteobacteria	Alphaproteobacteria	Alphaproteobacteria	Alphaproteobacteria	Alphaproteobacteria
order	Rhodobacterales	Rhodobacterales	Rhodobacterales	Rhodobacterales	Rhodobacterales
family	—	Rhodobacteraceae	Paracoccaceae	Rhodobacteraceae	Paracoccaceae
genus	Rhodobacter	Rhodobacter	first rank that differs from NCBI: Paenirhodobacter	first rank that differs from NCBI: Rhodobacter_B_493196	Rhodobacter
species	Rhodobacter capsulatus	first rank that differs from NCBI: Rhodobacter capsulatus_B	—	Rhodobacter_B_493196 capsulatus_B	—

Each column is the release its box shows. marks the first rank at which a database's name differs from NCBI's, by exact text; a suffix such as _A counts. SILVA's path and eHOMD's columns end at genus, so their species row is blank; the box above names the species. Levels a source labels outside these seven ranks are in the API's ranks and not drawn here.

Names in NCBI

from NCBI Taxonomy taxdump · 2026-10-23

Rhodobacter capsulatuscurrent
Rhodopseudomonas capsulata corrig. (Molisch 1907) van Niel 1944 (Approved Lists 1980)synonym
Rhodopseudomonas capsulatussynonym

Other names in these databases

GTDB R232

Rhodobacter capsulatus_B
Rhodobacter capsulatus
Rhodobacter capsulatus_C
Rhodobacter capsulatus_D
Rhodobacter capsulatus_E

SILVA 138.2

Rhodobacter capsulatus
Rhodobacter capsulatus SB 1003
Rhodobacter capsulatus B6
Rhodobacter capsulatus DE442
Rhodobacter capsulatus R121
Rhodobacter capsulatus Y262
Rhodobacter capsulatus YW1
Rhodobacter capsulatus YW2